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Place names that make good boys names

82 replies

candr · 06/01/2013 21:33

I am not thinking of Paris, Brookyln etc but or DS is named after a small village in the north with a slight spelling change. Any interesting place names you think would work for a boy, don't have to be from this country but not one you need to pronounce with an accent. Awaiting with interest Smile

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MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill · 06/01/2013 23:56

Rayleigh? Rowley? Royston? Selby? Shildon?Tadley? Thame?
I really like the concept and if I was going to have future children it is one I would employ.
Sadly, I'm not having more children so I am having my fun now.
I think there is a few good'uns in there, though in my head most seem to require a northern accent, for some strange reason!

LentilAsAnything · 06/01/2013 23:53

cece, you are quite right! But MN namers don't like hyphenated first names! Grin

Screaminabdabs · 06/01/2013 23:52

Maggie, your MN name is magnificent in certain MN listings - all hills and valleys - up with the Ms and down with the ggs.

MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill · 06/01/2013 23:49

Sorry more to come.

MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill · 06/01/2013 23:48

Warwick? Roehampton? Hampstead?Alfreton? Alnwick (pronounced annick) ? Alton? Amesby? Barnsley? Barrow? Bawtry? Beccles?Bentham? Bexley? Bradley? Bury? Calne? Chard?Colford?Colne?Corby? Darwen? Dursley? Filey? Filton? Fleet? Harlow? Harrow?Hedon? Hessle? Hinckley? Jarrow? Lewes?Lydney? Marlowe? Millom? Morley? Neston? Newlyn? Ossett? Prescott? Ramsey?

toastedteacake · 06/01/2013 23:48

Lentil - I like your thinking Grin

doublecakeplease · 06/01/2013 23:46

Jarrow
Houghton
Blyth
Chilton
Brockley
Can you tell i live up north!?

Wooton
Henley
Arden

cece · 06/01/2013 23:43

Oh I never saw that episode Wink Shock

amck5700 · 06/01/2013 23:35

cece - I don't think she was a lady, living with all those rampant wombles Wink

cece · 06/01/2013 23:32

Lentil - I think you'll find that is Staines-Upon-Thames Grin

cece · 06/01/2013 23:31

I was asked for boys names and Madame Cholet is a lady Wink

LentilAsAnything · 06/01/2013 23:30

I knew an Australian guy called Kent.

seeker · 06/01/2013 23:28

I had a friend at university who always said that she was going to have three children named her three favourite words- Wireless, Carpet and Vladivostok. I lost touch with her 30 years ago- I do wonder what her children are called!

amck5700 · 06/01/2013 23:27

cece - it was the absence of Madame Cholet that threw me :o

LentilAsAnything · 06/01/2013 23:24

Staines. Grin

intravenouscoffee · 06/01/2013 23:23

Carlisle.

Might be a bit too Twilight though.

cece · 06/01/2013 23:23

I think I must be older than all of you as I see you have missed my reference to Womble names. They choose their name from a world atlas that had been found on Wimbledon Common.

NoMoreMarbles · 06/01/2013 23:22

seeker Grin

My special place names would be Benidorm, Barrow-in-Furness and Puerto De La Cruz... Classy I know! Bennie, Barry and Puerty...

ZooAnimals · 06/01/2013 23:17

Corby
Marlow
Harlow
Ashby
Kendal
Crosby
Bingley
Eton
Ramsey
Sutton
Bruton
Haxby
Blaise
Jarrow
Penryn
Thatcham

amck5700 · 06/01/2013 23:16

That's an eclectic mix seeker :o

At last most of mine would be Scottish but a lot of them would be unpronounceable as names because they are Gaelic. Given free rein my OH would have named them after mountains and he wanted to spell Craig, Creag.

toastedteacake · 06/01/2013 23:16

Douglas
Preston
Alban
Kent
Crosby

Slough? Hmm

LilyVonSchtupp · 06/01/2013 23:15

I don't know if this is an urban myth but the popularity of Devon as a male name among American baby-boomers is owing to GIs being based there during WW2.

seeker · 06/01/2013 23:12

If I chose place names that mean a lot to me, I would have children called Wimbleball, Gnejna, Siracusa, and Canterbury.

serin · 06/01/2013 23:11

I was brought up in a place called Abram and have met 2 people called that (and a dog!)

amck5700 · 06/01/2013 23:03

If I was going to use a place name, it would have to be something that meant something to me or somewhere I liked or something.

That's why we nearly had Blaven or Blà Bheinn as it's one of the most beautiful mountains on Skye.